#the memoirs of sherlock holmes memes

[sarnie-for-varney]

"He'S bRokEn oUr wiNdoW! ☹️"

his apple 😢

[adearchive]

References:

Brown, Scott (2009). "Scott Brown on Sherlock Holmes, Obsessed Nerds, and Fan Fiction". Wired. Condé Nast.

Chua, Liana. (2018). “Small Acts and Personal Politics: On Helping to Save the Orangutan vis Social Media” Anthropology Today 34:7-11.

Costa, Elisabetta. (2016) “Social Media in Southeast Turkey”. UCL Press. https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/83107

Doyle, Arthur Conan. (1894). “The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes”. London, England: George Newnes.

McGrath, Tom, and Eric Darnell. 2005. Madagascar. United States: DreamWorks Distribution.

Miller, Daniel; Costa, Elisabetta; Haynes, Nell; McDonald, Tom; Nicolescu, Razvan; Sinanan, Jolynna; Spyer, Juliano; Venkatraman, Shriram; Wang, Xinyuan. (2016) “How the World Changed Social Media”. UCL Press. https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/83038

University College London. (2016) “Memes have become the moral police of online life”. Why We Post Project. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/why-we-post/discoveries/14-memes-have-become-the-moral-police-of-online-life

Yeromin. ,Mykola Borysovych (2021) "World of Uncertainty: How New Media Affects Communication on a Global Level and Required Adjustment to Expertise." In Universal Codes of Media in International Political Communications: Emerging Research and Opportunities. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.

[deathvsthemaiden]

Tagged by @elfenana (thanks for the tag!)

are you staying home from work/school?

Yes but school in particular still has its claws sunken deep into me thru technological means and it’s demoralizingggg! To say the least. The least...

if you are staying home, who is with you?

Parents and siblings. Totally paradisiacal state of affairs hahaha 😜 (half Kidding. It has its perks)

are you a homebody?

I thought so but quarantine is giving me much to think about. I mean probably yes I am but I have limits! I know because I keep smacking into them lately✌🏽

an event that you were looking forward to that got cancelled?

Just. So many now cancelled plans with friends, most who live out of state. They’re in the same state now and it makes no difference! Sucks but oh well

what movies have you watched recently?

None...I’ve been wanting to watch some quite a lot lately. Like the new Evergarden movie, some ghibli ones I haven’t seen before, Perfect Blue, the RDJ Holmes movies etc etc.

what music are you listening to?

Ahh for best results scroll thru my “tagged in” tag (easy to find bc the post you’re reading atm is tagged w that very tag!) I’ve been filling out a lot of music related tag memes lately. Recently discovered Tape Five and Caro Emerald, so that’s arguably what I’ve been listening to most often.

what are you reading?

Tough question. Technically I’m reading Bound by @pinkafropuffs (highly recommend if you like fun!!), Sourdough by Robin Sloan, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes and a few other titles but 1) my attention span is more broken than usual 2) TIME!! I can barely manage it anymore and I need to prioritize the most excruciatingly boring and painful things first before I can chill and read HSIDJS!! 💔💔💔💔

what are you doing for self care?

I’m doing a lot of stuff to make myself feel better lately but is any of it good for me? Much to deliberately avoid thinking about. (Lots of caffeine, lots of screentime, lots of panicking silently as I stare off into space) oh wait!! I’ve been in extremely good contact with friends! That’s a Good Thing I do because I Care. Gold star for me: 🌟! 🤗

Tagging: if you see this and want to do it please do!! And tag me too! :D

[teachingmycattoread]

Things We’ve Yelled About This Episode #2.13

A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle

A Scandal in Bohemia, Arthur Conan Doyle (our ep here)

Steven Moffat (imdb)

Mark Gatiss (imdb)

Superwholock (meme)

Dracula, Bram Stoker (our ep here)

BBC Sherlock (2010-2017)

that's how it is on this bitch of an earth (OK apparently this is from Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" via Luigi??? I honestly don't know what to do with that)

The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints/Mormonism (wiki)

Nanowrimo (website)

The “Hello!” song from The Book of Mormon (youtube)

Doylist perspective (wiki)

ed. there is no Study In Scarlet Jeremy Brett adaptation, as far as I can see

The Lost World, Arthur Conan Doyle (wiki)

Drift compatibility (wiki)

Benedict Cumberbatch (imdb)

Benedict Cumberbatch on autism here and here (cw. ableism)

ACAB (wiki)

Blorbo from my shows (meme)

Sherlock Is Garbage And Here's Why, hbomberguy (youtube)

Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes adaptations (imdb)

Elementary (2012-2019)

shadows on the wall of the cave/Plato's Cave (wiki)

Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë (our ep here)

Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare

“Whatever souls are made of, his and mine are the same”, Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë

Autostraddle interview with Melissa Febos on memoir

Poirot, Agatha Christie

Miss Marple, Agatha Christie

Lord Peter Wimsey, Dorothy L Sayers

David Suchet's Poirot (imdb)

Knives Out (2019)

Lincoln Rhyme, Jeffrey Deaver

locked room mysteries (tvtropes)

The Speckled Band, Arthur Conan Doyle

The Seven Sages, Pokémon (wiki)

What Else Are We Reading

Trash Future podcast (website)

Well There's Your Problem podcast (spotify)

Wow If True podcast (website)

Will Darling Mysteries, K. J. Charles

The Man Who Was Thursday, G. K. Chesterton

The Expanse (2015-2022)

Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett

The Iliad

Next Time On Teaching My Cat To Read

The Song of Achilles, Madeleine Miller

[doctornerdington]

Book ask meme!

Thanks, @ennisgarlaend, for the tag! This is my kind of meme. <3

1. Which book has been on your shelves the longest? I guess that would be a book from my childhood that is now on my kids’ shelves? They’ve got a bunch of my old Dr. Seuss books, and Gordon Korman, and some choose-your-own-adventures. OH! Maurice Sendack: In the Night Kitchen. And some great Mercer Meyer books that are falling apart. Those must be the oldest.

2. What is your current read, your last read and the book you’ll read next? Current: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy Last: White City by Roma Tearne Next: I might reread The Left Hand of Darkness, or maybe Wolf Winter by Cecilia Ekback.

3. Which book does everyone like and you hated? Well, I don’t know about “everyone.” But I’m a Victorianist and I hate Dickens. So. 

4. Which book do you keep telling yourself you’ll read, but you probably won’t? Moby Dick. And Madame Bovary in French. It’s been 25 years.

5. Which book are you saving for “retirement?” I’ve got a few on reserve for emergencies. Dorothy Sayers’ Strong Poison is one. Hilary Mantel’s Bring up the Bodies is another. I don’t know that I’ll wait for retirement, but it’ll probably be a while...

6. Last page: read it first or wait till the end? WAIT. Omg. Wait.

7. Acknowledgements: waste of ink and paper or interesting aside? Almost always read them looking for familiar names. Almost never find familiar names.

8. Which book character would you switch places with? Jeeves. Lucy Snow.

9. Do you have a book that reminds you of something specific in your life (a person, a place, a time)? Goodness, many. Many many many many.

10. Name a book you acquired in some interesting way. I cannot think of a single interesting story. I might be a boring book shopper, or just very forgetful.

11. Have you ever given away a book for a special reason to a special person? Sure, lots. When I got my PhD, I wanted to have a prescription pad printed up so I could prescribe books to people who needed them. I still would like to have this power, haha.

12. Which book has been with you to the most places? My paperback 2 volume complete Sherlock Holmes has gone with me everywhere I’ve ever lived. That’s 4 countries, plus many trips.

13. Any “required reading” you hated in high school that wasn’t so bad ten years later? I don’t recall hating any high school readings, but there were some things we read then that I haven’t fully appreciated until later. Margaret Laurence’s The Stone Angel is one.

14. What is the strangest item you’ve ever found in a book? Can’t think of a thing.

15. Used or brand new? Both. I like used best, though. I like books that have lived lives already before they come to me.

16. Stephen King: Literary genius or opiate of the masses? I mean... both? Why not both? I love The Shining, but his other stuff isn’t my cup of tea.

17. Have you ever seen a movie you liked better than the book? Surely, but I’m drawing a blank...

18. Conversely, which book should NEVER have been introduced to celluloid? Again, blank... 

19. Have you ever read a book that’s made you hungry, cookbooks being excluded from this question? Toast by Nigel Slater. Among many. I love a good foodie memoir. I like Anthony Bourdain’s stuff, too. Some stuff about Escoffier. Margaret Visser’s social histories of food.

20. Who is the person whose book advice you’ll always take?@unreconstructedfangirl and @redscudery, to start.

[crookedspoonfic]

Questions for writers: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 15, 20, 22, 30, 37, 47, 50, 54!

From the Questions for Writers meme. You want to know it all, eh? Hope I can do these questions justice!

5. Books or authors that influenced your style the most.

Idk if The Wheel of Time was formative in the creation of my style, but Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale definitely was. And Oryx and Crake, definitely. I hope Keri Hulme’s The Bone People might also make it in there (if you wanna read it, be warned there’s some heavy child abuse in there, but also a character who refers to herself as ace and neuter, which basically made my head explode because I never thought I’d see that in a book written before the oughts).

6. Favorite character you ever created.

Victor Trevor, of Sherlock Holmes fame, a joint production with my dear, dear friend @neurotoxia. In my book, he counts as OC because Doyle gave us about as much information about him as Stiefvater gave us on Skov, Jiang and Swan, maybe less.

7. Favorite author.

Margaret Atwood. Brandon Sanderson might make it in there, too, but I’ve only read 2/3 of Mistborn and the books he wrote to finish The Wheel of Time. (Also answered here.)

8. Favorite trope to write.

Pining, mutually unrequited, “let’s fuck but pretend to not care about each other and denying we’re developing feels,” It’s all very predictable. I would like to say Fake Relationship, but I don’t think I’ve written that yet, despite many ideas that would fall under this category.

9. Least favorite trope to write.

None comes to mind right away. Basically, I want to be open and try everything at least once? In some fandoms, certain tropes are basically canon and so it’s easier for me to (potentially) write. (The DCU is a prime example of this. I feel like I could make enverything work there and it wouldn’t be any weirder than what’s already canon.) 

I guess there are some overdone ones as found on trope-bingo that I wouldn’t particularly care for (huddle for warmth eg), but with the right pairing and scenario I’d still want to write it *shrugs*

15. Where does your inspiration come from?

I answered something similar here. In general, from everything that has words or images that give me character vibes. Also, discussing ideas with fandom friends. Or, apparently, as I learned today, from tumblr posts that delineate a pairing idea. (AU prompts have worked in the past, but this was new.)

20. Post a snippet of a WIP you’re working on.

Can’t wait, huh? I was gonna post snippets at the end of the month. But you’re interest warms my heart.

“Here’s the deal, sweetheart, since I’m in a generous mood: Whatever you want me to do to you, I’ll do it.” There’s a dramatic pause as he takes another drag from his cigarette, letting his statement work inside you. “All you have to do is say it out loud.”

His eyes are glassy and his smile is like water, liquid-soft at first but able to erode you with time.

“Sound good?”

22. How many drafts do you need until you’re satisfied and a project is ultimately done for you?

I cannot tell you that because I rarely ever finish a thing and then go back to editing. I can spend weeks searching for a first sentence that will get the ball rolling. I can edit the beginning every time I go over it while searching for a way to continue where I’m stuck. I can throw out entire paragraphs and rewrite the scenes because they’re not working. It all depends on how long the thing I’m writing is, when it needs to be finished, and how dear to my heart this thing is. I’ve been known to rush endings and post things the moment they were done, because oh dang, look at the time, the day is almost over and that stupid challenge ends today.

I’d say, in general three. One in which I finish, no matter how often I’ve changed things before I wrote what I consider to be the final sentence. One in which I go over that and edit everything that sounds off, and another in which I check that I’ve made no mistakes in that previous revision. 

Bear in mind that my average length is 1-2k. I have an 8k WIP in which I rewrote the beginning at least four times and then decided to trash the entire beast because it wasn’t working. And now I’m trying to start over.

30. Favorite line you’ve ever written.

I’d have to go back and re-read all my fic which would take entirely too long given that I’m a snail of a reader, but I can tell you what my favourite alliteration is:

a coarse conglomerate of country bumpkins

from The Chrysanthemum Vow (Gintama) and referring to the Shinsengumi. That fic is from 2013 and even though my English may have been wobbly at times, I still think I haven’t written any better.

37. Most inspirational quote you’ve ever read or heard that’s still important to you.

Harrumph, I’m sure I answered this somewhere but of course I cannot find it now. (Okay, I was probably thinking of this, but the quotes don’t pertain to writing.)

Sorry, I got nothing.

47. Do you start with characters or plot when working on a new story?

Considering I only write fanfic, I have to start with the characters?

50. Weirdest story idea you’ve ever had.

My ideas don’t feel as wild as some that are out there, but I guess a Christmas AU with the cast of characters as reluctant Santa and his hard-working elves? Written way back in 08.

54. Any writing advice you want to share?

Dude, I barely know what I’m doing. There’s no advice to be gleaned from me. So I’m going to refer you to Stephen King, who in his memoir On Writing said to first write your story with the door closed (i.e. let no one see it) and when it’s finished edit with your door open.

[randomnoteforfuturereference]

BBC 100 Books meme

Was tagged by @javistg and @thegreatorangedragon for this meme 

Of course, film adaptations don’t count (To Kill a Mockingbird, Oliver Twist, etc); nor does reading only a couple chapters before I felt like clawing my brains out of boredom (A Tale of Two Cities, Moby Dick, etc).

And no, watching the Wishbone version doesn’t count either. If that was the case, my elementary school years would have satisfied a considerable chunk of this list. Good times...

...

Anyways...

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien  Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte Harry Potter series - JK Rowling To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee The Bible 
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman  Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller Complete Works of Shakespeare - William Shakespeare  Jamaica Inn - Daphne Du Maurier  
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger Middlemarch - George Eliot Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald Bleak House - Charles Dickens War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy  The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy David Copperfield - Charles Dickens Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis Emma - Jane Austen Persuasion - Jane Austen 
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne Animal Farm - George Orwell The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving 
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 
Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy (Infuriating) 
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood Lord of the Flies - William Golding Atonement - Ian McEwan 
Life of Pi - Yann Martel  Dune - Frank Herbert Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon 
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov The Secret History - Donna Tartt The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold  Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 
On The Road - Jack Kerouac Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie 
Moby Dick - Herman Melville 
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens Dracula - Bram Stoker 
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett  Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson Ulysses - James Joyce The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome Germinal - Emile Zola Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray Possession - AS Byatt A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell The Color Purple - Alice Walker The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry Charlotte’s Web - EB White The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks Watership Down - Richard Adams  A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole  A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute  The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas Hamlet - William Shakespeare  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

...

Gonna tag @kleeklutch, @hawthornhedge, @worldwithinworld, @sohypothetically, and @eala-musings in this.

[xerxia31]

BBC 100 Books meme

BBC 100 Books Tag

BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Bold the ones you’ve read. (AND/OR ITALIC THE ONES ON YOUR READING LIST)

I might be the last person to do this. Thanks for the tags, @burkygirl @papofglencoe @thegirlfromoverthepond  @litlifelover @bandathebillie 

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (on my kindle for a re-read) The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte Harry Potter series - JK Rowling To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee The Bible (catholic school) 
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell  (on my kindle for a re-read) 
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott  Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy


Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

Complete Works of Shakespeare (puh-leeze, that’s a ton. I’ve read quite a few, but not all)

Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger Middlemarch - George Eliot Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald Bleak House - Charles Dickens 
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (this lives on my shelf to make me look smart, but I’ve never cracked the spine) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy David Copperfield - Charles Dickens Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis Emma - Jane Austen Persuasion - Jane Austen 
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (destroyed me) Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne Animal Farm - George Orwell The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving (on my kindle) 
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 
Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy 
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood Lord of the Flies - William Golding Atonement - Ian McEwan 
Life of Pi - Yann Martel  (most overrated book ever) Dune - Frank Herbert Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon 
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov The Secret History - Donna Tartt The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 
On The Road - Jack Kerouac Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie 
Moby Dick - Herman Melville 
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens Dracula - Bram Stoker 
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson Ulysses - James Joyce The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome Germinal - Emile Zola Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray Possession - AS Byatt A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell The Color Purple - Alice Walker The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro  
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry Charlotte’s Web - EB White The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom (LOL) Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks Watership Down - Richard Adams A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute 
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 
Hamlet - William Shakespeare 
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (ceci j’ai lu en francais)

I know most everyone has already done this, but I tag my fellow readers of literature and smut @appleblossomgirl0305 @peetabreadgirl and @burkygirl

[possibility221]

8 questions meme

I was tagged by @theslaughteredunicorn; Thank you.

Rules:  Answer eight questions then tag eight people.

Last movie I watched: Kedi – documentary about the street cats of Istanbul. Recommended for cat lovers. It only played for a few days in my town though. I was lucky to hear about it while at another event at the theater.

Last Song I listened to: I haven’t actively played a song recently, but a song I heard that comes to mind is Dancing on My Own by Calum Scott.

Last Book I Read: Lion by Saroo Brierley (previously published as A Long Way Home: A Memoir). Currently reading Sullivan’s Island by Dorothea Benton Frank. I picked that up at a library book sale after visiting Charleston, S.C.

Last Thing I Ate: pizza made with pre-baked crust, pizza sauce, mozzarella, tomato, and fresh basil from my friend’s garden

Where Would You Like to Time Travel To: a starship.

Fictional Character I Would Hang Out With For A Day: I had trouble deciding between Sherlock Holmes and Joan Watson, but I’ll go with Joan.

If I Could Be Anywhere Right Now, Where Would I Be?: Venice, Italy (I was lucky to visit once, but that was only for 1 day). I’ve got Istanbul on my mind now too.

Current Fandom Obsession:  Elementary

If any of you would like to take a break from finale episode meta, I’ll tag a few of you: @elementary-said-ni, @tissys, @nairobiwonders, @margoleon, @disheveledcurls, @joaneuglassiawatson, and anyone else who would like to answer, but only if you feel like it.

[katamount]

BBC 100 books tag

So there’s this fun ask meme going around (thanks for the tag, @papofglencoe and @javistg! ☺️) that says: “BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Bold the ones you’ve read. (And/or italicize the ones on your reading list.)” Turns out, according to this site: “Interestingly, the BBC never actually made this declaration. The list was created by an unknown individual and spread around the internet as a meme called The BBC Book List Challenge. It was probably loosely based on another list of books that was the result of a survey carried out in 2003 by the BBC in which three quarters of a million people voted to find the nation’s best-loved novels of all time.” And according to this poster: “The average Goodreads member has read 23 out of 100 books on this list.” Link to BBC’s The Big Read: “In April 2003 the BBC’s Big Read began the search for the nation’s best-loved novel, and we asked you to nominate your favourite books.”

My husband (not even an English major) crushed me. He’s read all but 32 of these! 

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte Harry Potter series - JK Rowling To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee The Bible 
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
                                                      Catch 22 - Joseph Heller Complete Works of Shakespeare Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger Middlemarch - George Eliot Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald Bleak House - Charles Dickens 
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy David Copperfield - Charles Dickens Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis Emma - Jane Austen Persuasion - Jane Austen 
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne Animal Farm - George Orwell The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown                                                                       One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez                                 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving


The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 
Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy 
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood Lord of the Flies - William Golding Atonement - Ian McEwan 
Life of Pi - Yann Martel Dune - Frank Herbert Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon 
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov The Secret History - Donna Tartt The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 
On The Road - Jack Kerouac Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie 
Moby Dick - Herman Melville 
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens Dracula - Bram Stoker 
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson Ulysses - James Joyce The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome Germinal - Emile Zola Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray Possession - AS Byatt. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell The Color Purple - Alice Walker The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry Charlotte’s Web - EB White The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks Watership Down - Richard Adams A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute 
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 
Hamlet - William Shakespeare 
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I tag @shesasurvivor, @kleeklutch, and everyone who wants to play!

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*deductively eats cake*

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The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Reblog this and bold the titles you’ve read.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen


2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein


3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte


4 Harry Potter series


5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee


6 The Bible


7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte


8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell


9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman


10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens


11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott


12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy


13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller


14 Complete Works of Shakespeare not the complete works


15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier


16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien


17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks


18 Catcher in the Rye


19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger


20 Middlemarch – George Eliot


21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell


22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald


23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens


24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy


25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams


26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh


27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky


28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck


29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll


30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame


31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy


32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens


33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis (not all of them because my 5th grade teacher yelled at me)


34 Emma – Jane Austen


35 Persuasion – Jane Austen


36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis


37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini


38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres


39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden


40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne


41 Animal Farm – George Orwell


42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown


43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez


44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving


45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins


46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery


47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy


48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood


49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding


50 Atonement – Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel


52 Dune – Frank Herbert


53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons


54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen


55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth


56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon


57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens


58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley


59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon


60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez


61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck


62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov


63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt


64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold


65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas


66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac


67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy


68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding


69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie


70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville


71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens


72 Dracula – Bram Stoker


73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett


74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson


75 Ulysses – James Joyce


76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath


77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome


78 Germinal – Emile Zola


79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray


80 Possession – AS Byatt


81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens


82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel


83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker


84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro


85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert


86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry


87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White


88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom


89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton


91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad


92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery


93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks


94 Watership Down – Richard Adams


95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole


96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute


97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas


98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare


99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl


100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

Total: 28! I feel like making this into a tag meme so I’ll tag @boat-face-mcgee @valerivscorvus @halfofagrapefruit @geekheretic @archistratego @illuminosity @iluminacje @viendiletto

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BBC 100 Books meme

Yay books! That said, what a strange collection of books this is. I feel like it must have been compiled to create some sort of psychological assessment: classic children’s books + classically scandalized women + classic governmental paranoia (and Shakespeare for legitimization...) = ?? 

I might be the last person to do this. Thanks for the tags, @papofglencoe and @xerxia31​! I adore all opportunities to talk about books! If anyone else wants to do this, tag, you’re it!

BBC 100 Books Tag

BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Bold the ones you’ve read. (AND/OR ITALIC THE ONES ON YOUR READING LIST)

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (re-reading this right now!) The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte Harry Potter series - JK Rowling To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (one of my all-time most favorite books!) The Bible (some, but admittedly not all of the Old Testament) 
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell   
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (planned re-read with my kids this summer) Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (man, this book makes me salty to this day) Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy


Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

Complete Works of Shakespeare (I’ve seen a lot of plays, does that count?)

Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger Middlemarch - George Eliot Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald Bleak House - Charles Dickens 
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy  The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (love all things Steinbeck) Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy David Copperfield - Charles Dickens Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis Emma - Jane Austen Persuasion - Jane Austen 
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (redundant from CON?) The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (destroyed me) Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne Animal Farm - George Orwell The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (sigh of happiness) A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving (my book club choice for August) 
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 
Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy 
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood Lord of the Flies - William Golding Atonement - Ian McEwan (so, so good!) 
Life of Pi - Yann Martel   Dune - Frank Herbert Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon 
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (summer before college I read Brave New World, Animal Farm, Catch 22 and 1984 - I was a paranoid mess) 
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (incredible book) The Secret History - Donna Tartt (tried to listen to this, but Ms. Tartt self-narrates, and she writes far better than she narrates, will give it another try) The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 
On The Road - Jack Kerouac Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie 
Moby Dick - Herman Melville 
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens Dracula - Bram Stoker 
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson Ulysses - James Joyce The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome Germinal - Emile Zola Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray Possession - AS Byatt A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell The Color Purple - Alice Walker The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry Charlotte’s Web - EB White The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom  Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks Watership Down - Richard Adams A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute 
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 
Hamlet - William Shakespeare 
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo 

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Tag Meme: Books!

@readingbooksinisrael​ said anyone could consider themselves tagged, so I’m considering myself tagged! 

How many have you read?

BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Bold the ones you’ve read.

(this is for read, this is for currently reading or in the middle of the series and this for TBR)

(I’m not going to give my opinion on them though. Some it’s been so long my feelings may have changed.) 

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien  Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte  Harry Potter series - JK Rowling To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee The Bible  I mean I’ve read some having been raised in the church Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte DNF Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman Great Expectations - Charles Dickens Little Women - Louisa M Alcott Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy Catch 22 - Joseph Heller Complete Works of Shakespeare Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger Middlemarch - George Eliot Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald Bleak House - Charles Dickens War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll  The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy David Copperfield - Charles Dickens Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis Emma - Jane Austen Persuasion - Jane Austen The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne  Animal Farm - George Orwell  The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery  Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood Lord of the Flies - William Golding Atonement - Ian McEwan Life of Pi - Yann Martel Dune - Frank Herbert Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens Brave New World - Aldous Huxley The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov The Secret History - Donna Tartt The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold DNF Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas On The Road - Jack Kerouac Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie Moby Dick - Herman Melville Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens Dracula - Bram Stoker The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett  Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson Ulysses - James Joyce The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome Germinal - Emile Zola Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray Possession - AS Byatt. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell The Color Purple - Alice Walker The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry Charlotte’s Web - EB White The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle  The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery  The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks Watership Down - Richard Adams  A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas Hamlet - William Shakespeare Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl Les Miserables - Victor Hugo 

I have no idea how they came up with the list, but that’s more than six for me! :)

Consider yourself tagged if that’s your thing!

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Book meme

Tagged by @victorineb <3

The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Reblog this and bold the titles you’ve read.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger 20 Middlemarch – George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis 34 Emma – Jane Austen 35 Persuasion – Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne 41 Animal Farm – George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving 45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding 50 Atonement – Ian McEwan 51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel 52 Dune – Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth 56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding 69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 72 Dracula – Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses – James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal – Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession – AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell 83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks 94 Watership Down – Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

Total: 30. 

Tagging @slushiebear, @megneato, @debdastardly, @death--stranded, @diea-kierlyn, @experimentalmadness, @marsqueerianh, @fataldrum and anyone else who wants to play. 

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Book Meme

The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Reblog this and bold the titles you’ve read.

I saw this going around and thought...why not? Thought my list will probably be kind of sad. Not because I don’t read, I just read less popular things. And well, I also blame the Florida education system. (Side Note: Why is The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe AND The Chronicles of Narnia listed as two separate things? Isn’t  TLTWATW part of the Chronicles of Narnia? Also this goes for Hamlet, being that it’s part of the Complete Works of Shakespeare. I’m confused.)

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger 20 Middlemarch – George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis 34 Emma – Jane Austen 35 Persuasion – Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne 41 Animal Farm – George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Browng 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving 45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding 50 Atonement – Ian McEwan 51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel 52 Dune – Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth 56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding 69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 72 Dracula – Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses – James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal – Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession – AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel 83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks 94 Watership Down – Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo